Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 370 473 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Cactus opuntia Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 468. 1753 . "Habitat in America, Peru, Virginia, nunc in Hispania, Lusitania." RCN: 3584. Lectotype (Heath in Calyx 2: 74. 1992): [icon] " Opuntia vulgo herbariorum " in Bauhin & Cherler, Hist. Pl. Univ. 1(1): 154. 1650. Current name: Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. ( Cactaceae ). Note: Authors including Hunt (in Milne-Redhead & Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Cactaceae : 3. 1968), Obermeyer (in Ross, Fl. Southern Africa 22: 153. 1976) and Leuenberger (in Willdenowia 16: 498. 1987) interpreted the name via the cited Bauhin & Cherler illustration but without explicitly treating it as the type. Benson ( Cacti U.S. Canada : 923. 1982) wrongly designated 201.7 (S), material unannotated by Linnaeus and not original material for the name, as lectotype before Heath (in Calyx 2: 74. 1992) formally made the Bauhin & Cherler figure the type. Leuenberger (in Taxon 42: 419, f. 2. 1993), however, rejected Heath's choice in favour of a Burser collection (UPS) on the grounds that the figure conflicts with the diagnosis but, as a cited illustration, it cannot be dismissed in this way as it forms part of the protologue. Crook & Mottram (in Bradleya 22: 73-74. 2004) provide a further review, reproducing images of the Burser material (f. 106d) and the cited Bauhin & Cherler type (f. 106c), while following Leuenberger's type choice.